It Teams OKRs

How you write your OKRs can make a huge difference on the impact that your team will have at the end of the quarter. But, it's not always easy to write a quarterly plan that focuses on outcomes instead of projects.

We've tailored a list of OKRs examples for It Teams to help you. You can look at any of the templates below to get some inspiration for your own goals.

If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read more about the meaning of OKRs online.

Examples of OKRs for It Teams

You'll find Objectives and Key Results for It Teams, but our examples may also include the tasks that can help you get there.

You'll find 4 OKRs examples for It Teams below, and some extra tips to write better quarterly plans at the end.

OKRs to improve incident management

  • ObjectiveBuild an amazing incident management process
  • Key ResultReduce the number of regressions by 60%
  • Key ResultIncrease the size of the incident response team from 2 to 6 people
  • Key ResultReduce the MTTR from 3h to 60 minutes

OKRs to increase security awareness

  • ObjectiveMake security part of our culture
  • Key ResultRoll out fleet management pilot to 30% of the company
  • Key Result2FA is used on all 3rd party services used by employees
  • Key Result100% of our employees have gone through security training

OKRs to improve developer experience by improvign dev speed

  • ObjectiveProvide amazing Developer Experience (DX) by improving dev speed
  • Key Result90% of products have a standardized Continuous Delivery pipeline
  • Key ResultReduce average build time from 20 minutes to 2 minutes
  • Key ResultReduce release cycle time from 12 days to 3 days

OKRs to improve the Disaster Recover process

  • ObjectiveHave a world class DR process
  • Key ResultIncrease the number of DR tests from 1 to 3 per quarter
  • Key ResultReduce recovery period from 24h to 12h
  • Key ResultReduce recovery point objective from 12 business hours to 4 business hours

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You can use a goal-setting AI to generate great OKRs for you based on a description of your objectives.

How to track your OKRs?

It's important to establish a cadence of check-ins for your It Teams OKRs.

Your quarterly OKRs should be tracked weekly in order to get all the benefits of the OKRs framework.

Spreadsheets are enough to get started. Then, once you need to scale you can use a proper OKRs-tracking platform to make things easier.

Check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.

OKRs resources

Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.

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